The Colorado Avalanche (52-16-11) begin their last regular-season trip against the Edmonton Oilers (40-30-10). Puck drop is scheduled for 7:38 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n
Key Stories to Watch<\/p>\n
The Avalanche will play two games on the road without Jared Bednar behind the bench. The team\u2019s head coach took a puck to the side of the face on Saturday at Ball Arena and sustained facial fractures and a corneal abrasion. Assistant coaches Dave Hakstol and Nolan Pratt will share coaching duties, with Hakstol, who has head coaching experience, calling line changes. <\/p>\n
The expectation is for Colorado to start resting players in this game, but we won\u2019t know until they take the ice for warm ups. The team is still without injured Cale Makar, Nazem Kadri, and Josh Manson, all of which are recovering from upper-body injuries. Makar skated with the team in a regular sweater at morning skate, while Kadri donned a red non contact.<\/p>\n
After two straight games with Mackenzie Blackwood in goal, it\u2019s likely we\u2019ll see Scott Wedgewood back in goal, as he tries to win his 30th of the season. <\/p>\n
The Oilers are still fighting for the top seed in the Central Division. They\u2019re currently a point back of the Vegas Golden Knights, who defeated the Avs in overtime on Saturday. Connor Ingram starts for Edmonton<\/p>\n
Donate to the Colorado Hockey Now Playoff Travel Fund via\u00a0PAYPAL BY CLICKING HERE<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0VENMO BY CLICKING HERE<\/a>\u00a0to help our beat writer provide coverage from road games as the Avalanche pursue another Stanley Cup championship<\/p>\n Season Series<\/p>\n Nov. 8 at Edmonton Oilers (W, 9-1)<\/p>\n March 10 vs Edmonton Oilers (L, 4-3)<\/p>\n April 13 at Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n Avalanche Injuries<\/p>\n Cale Makar (upper body)<\/p>\n Nazem Kadri (upper body)<\/p>\n Josh Manson (upper body)<\/p>\n Projected Avalanche Lines (Subject to Change)<\/p>\n Artturi Lehkonen \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon \u2014 Martin Necas Devon Toews\u2014 Sam Malinski Scott Wedgewood Projected Starters (Subject to Change)<\/p>\n Unconfirmed: Scott Wedgewood (COL)<\/p>\n Confirmed: Connor Ingram (EDM)<\/p>\n Upcoming Milestones<\/p>\n Brock Nelson \u2014 needs 1 game for 1000<\/p>\n Scott Wedgewood \u2014 needs 4 games for 200<\/p>\n Gabriel Landeskog \u2014 needs 4 games for 800<\/p>\n How to Watch<\/p>\n TV: Altitude TV<\/p>\n Radio: 92.5 FM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche (52-16-11) begin their last regular-season trip against the Edmonton Oilers (40-30-10). Puck drop is scheduled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1223,1792,385,99],"class_list":["post-583438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Gabriel Landeskog \u2014 Brock Nelson \u2014 Valeri Nichushkin
Ross Colton \u2014 Nicolas Roy \u2014 Joel Kiviranta
Parker Kelly \u2014 Jack Drury \u2014 Logan O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n
Brett Kulak \u2014 Brent Burns
Jack Ahcan \u2014 Nick Blankenburg<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Blackwood<\/p>\n